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ME2016 Schedule for Fall 2007

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The reading assignments refer to the textbook by Chapra and Canale.

Week

Date

Topic

Reading

1

8/20

 

Course overview and philosophy

Chapter 1

8/22

 

Numerical errors: accuracy, precision, round-off errors

Chapter 3

8/24

 

Floating point representation and computation

Assignment #0:  Tell us something about yourself

Chapter 3

2

8/27

  Taylor series and truncation errors Chapter 4

8/29

 

Matlab Review: control structures and debugging

Chapter 2

8/31

 

The theme of the assignments: the drive train of a car.
Assignment #1: Errors in Taylor Series and Floating Point Numbers

Lecture Slides

3

9/3

 

Labor Day -- No Class

 

9/5

 

Modeling in Engineering

Chapter 1

9/7

 

Root Finding: Bisection and False-Position methods
Assignment #2: Modeling a Drivetrain of a Car.

Section 5.1 - 5.3

4

9/10

 

Root Finding: Newton-Raphson method

Sections 6.1 & 6.2

9/12

 

Root Finding: Comparison of Root Finding Methods

Chapter 6

9/14

 

Root Finding: Implementing Bisection in Matlab
Assignment #3: Root-Finding Algorithms

 

5

9/17

 

Problem Session

 

9/19

 

MID-TERM 1 EXAM

 

9/21

 

Linear Equations: Gauss Elimination

Sections 9.1 - 9.4

6

9/24

 

Linear Equations: Determining the computational complexity

Section 9.2

9/26

 

Curve Fitting: Least Squares Regression

Sections 17.1 & 17.2

9/28

 

Curve Fitting: General Linear Least Squares
Assignment #4: Root Finding -- Finding Optimal Shift Velocities

Section 17.4

7

10/1

 

Curve Fitting: Cross validation & Discussion

Lecture Notes

10/3

 

Curve Fitting: Problem Session

 

10/5

 

Interpolation: Linear and Spline interpolation
Assignment #5: Curve Fitting -- Creating an Engine Model

Section 18.1

8

10/8

 

Mid-Term Recess -- No Class

 

10/10

 

Interpolation: Problems & discussion

 

10/12

 

Problem Session

 

9

10/15

 

MID-TERM 2 EXAM

 

10/17

 

Numerical Integration: Newton-Cotes Formulas

Sections 21.1 - 21.3

10/19

 

Numerical Integration: Newton Cotes Continued

Sections 21.1 - 21.3

10

10/22

 

Numerical Integration: implementation in Matlab

 

10/24

 

Numerical Integration: Problem Session

 

10/26

 

Ordinary Differential Equations: Euler's Method
Assignment #6: Numerical Integration -- Computing the Fuel Consumption

Section 25.1

11

10/29

 

ODEs: Euler's Method Continued

Sections 25.1 & 25.2

10/31

 

ODEs: Runge Kutta Methods

Section 25.3

11/2

 

ODEs: Systems of ODEs

Section 25.4

12

11/5

 

ODEs: Problems & Discussion

Lecture Slides

11/7

 

Optimization: Golden Section Search

Section 13.1

11/9

 

Problem Session

 

13

11/12

 

MID-TERM 3 EXAM

 

11/14

 

Optimization: Multidimensional Optimization Methods

Sections 14.1 & 14.2

11/16

 

Optimization: Constrained Optimization Methods
Assignment #7: ODEs -- Simulating a Car

Lecture Notes

14

11/19

  Optimization: The Role and Limitations of Optimization in Engineering

Lecture Notes

11/21

  Optimization: Problem Session

 

11/23

 

Thanksgiving Holiday -- No Class

 

15

11/26

 

Signal Processing: sampling

Lecture Notes

11/28

 

Signal Processing: filtering example

Lecture Notes

11/30

 

Signal Processing: Fourier Series and Transform
Assignment #8: Optimization -- Tuning your Drivetrain

Sections 19.1 & 19.2

16

12/3

 

Review and Problem Session

 

12/5

 

Review and Problem Session

 

12/7

 

Course Summary

 

17

Monday
12/10

 

Section C: FINAL EXAM
from 11:30AM to 2:20PM

 

Wednesday
12/12

 

Section D: FINAL EXAM
from 2:50PM to 5:40PM

 

Friday
12/14

 

Section A: FINAL EXAM
from 11:30AM to 2:20PM

 

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